Tag: Waking Life
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Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
When Richard Linklater was in second grade, he became enthralled by the historical moment that was happening right in his Houston backyard as NASA prepared for the Apollo moon landing. Decades later, it occurred to Linklater that he was probably the only filmmaker who remembered the excitement of that moment and was also that geographically…
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‘Apollo 10 1/2’: Richard Linklater on Returning to Animation with His Most Personal Film Yet
Richard Linklater is no stranger to animation, but “Apollo 10 1/2” is a world apart from “Waking Life.” The seminal Texas filmmaker’s new Netflix-produced project, set to make its world premiere at SXSW this week ahead of an April 1 release on Netflix, takes the filmmaker back to “Boyhood” territory: The charming immersion into the…
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Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood Trailer: Richard Linklater’s Take On The Moon Landing
Space. The final frontier. While this is certainly the case for kids that grew up with an obsession with the cosmos, it also had to be along the lines of what the astronauts were thinking when they set foot on the moon for the first time. Now, thanks to Netflix and acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater,…
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‘Undone’ Trailer: Bob Odenkirk and Rosa Salazar Star in Amazon’s First Animated Series For Adults
Well, this looks wild. Undone is a new adult animated series from Amazon that uses rotoscoping – the process of having animators trace over live footage. The same process was used for Richard Linklater’s Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. Rosa Salazar and Bob Odenkirk star in this series about…well, I don’t know what the…